Watch Paul Reed Smith Tell Guitar-Player Jokes
Tyler Larson, whose informative and frequently humorous videos we often run here, sat down with PRS Guitars founder Paul Reed Smith at this year’s Winter NAMM show.
What emerged from their huddle is nearly three minutes of jokes about guitarists, as well as a few about lead singers, bassists and drummers.
To wit:
“What’s the difference between a guitar player and an extra-large pizza?”
“How do you know it’s a guitar player at your front door?”
“Why does a drummer leave his drum sticks on the dashboard?”
Get the answers to these and other riddles below.
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Christopher Scapelliti is editor-in-chief of Guitar Player magazine, the world’s longest-running guitar magazine, founded in 1967. In his extensive career, he has authored in-depth interviews with such guitarists as Pete Townshend, Slash, Billy Corgan, Jack White, Elvis Costello and Todd Rundgren, and audio professionals including Beatles engineers Geoff Emerick and Ken Scott. He is the co-author of Guitar Aficionado: The Collections: The Most Famous, Rare, and Valuable Guitars in the World, a founding editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine, and a former editor with Guitar World, Guitar for the Practicing Musician and Maximum Guitar. Apart from guitars, he maintains a collection of more than 30 vintage analog synthesizers.

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